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bacchanal

noun

1 bacchanal

Someone who engages in drinking bouts.

synonyms: bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller.

2 bacchanal

A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus.

synonym: bacchant.

3 bacchanal

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.

synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia.

Dutch: bacchanaal, orgie, tuchtloosheid, lichtzinnigheid, frivoliteit, liederlijkheid, bandeloosheid, zedeloosheid, losbandigheid, saturnaliƫn

Roget 959: drunkenness etc. adj.; intemperance; drinking etc. v.; inebriety, inebriation; ebriety, ebriosity; insobriety; intoxication; temulency, ... show more

adjective

1 bacchanal

Used of riotously drunken merrymaking:
— A night of bacchanalian revelry.

synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic.


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